Thursday, June 30, 2011

It seems the web market it’s bubbling again and the buy/sell it’s rising again real fast over the technology markets.This time it was myspace.com website that was sold for 35$ million dollars to Specific Media enterprise in a partnership with the actor and musician Justin Timberlake.

After in 2005, the News Corp, the Rupert Murdoch enterprise, bought MySpace.com on a fight with Viacom, now the website was sold again. Remember that the MySpace was bought for 12$ million dollars but after an huge success of a social network called Facebook, the hype over MySpace loose a little bit of spark.

Monday, June 27, 2011

After 50 days of “terror” over the internet, exposing governments and huge world wide enterprises security issues, LulzSec said today on an official statement that it’s actions are over.

Although on of the objectives of this hackers group was to have “some fun”, the true is that they really exposed, and showed us how “simple” is to hack some important websites both commercial and public.I believe Sony was monetary the most prejudiced over LulzSec actions but other websites were also exposed to what we believed were a safe house like AT&T, AOL and FBI.

After some detentions and some risk of people snitching about the true people behind this group, they are retiring. Let’s see if this will be for real or they’re just going to rest a little bit and let the cloud stay off them.

Here the statement LulzSec let on the internet later today:

"Friends around the globe, We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us. For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. It's what we all crave, even the seemingly lifeless politicians and emotionless, middle-aged self-titled failures. You are not failures. You have not blown away. You can get what you want and you are worth having it, believe in yourself. While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently. Behind this jolly visage of rainbows and top hats, we are people. People with a preference for music, a preference for food; we have varying taste in clothes and television, we are just like you. Even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden had these unique variations and style, and isn't that interesting to know? The mediocre painter turned supervillain liked cats more than we did. Again, behind the mask, behind the insanity and mayhem, we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz. We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we've gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don't stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve. So with those last thoughts, it's time to say bon voyage. Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind - we hope - inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere. Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon. Let it flow... Lulz Security - our crew of six wishes you a happy 2011, and a shout-out to all of our battlefleet members and supporters across the globe ---------- Included in this release: AOL internal data.txt AT&T internal data.rar Battlefield Heroes Beta (550k users).csv FBI being silly.txt Hackforums.net (200k users).sql Nato-bookshop.org (12k users).csv Office networks of corporations.txt Private Investigator Emails.txt Random gaming forums (50k users).txt Silly routers.txt navy.mil owned.png "

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Last month, Joshua Hoffman from Microsoft wrote down an very interesting article about the new beta service in Windows Azure.

The new virtualization role on Windows Azure takes the Cloud to a further step. Now you can create you Virtual Machine on your Hyper-V and then upload it to Azure.Joshua talks about some things that you need to adjust before you create and upload your virtual machine.

Monday, June 20, 2011

A virtual machine per machine, seems to be the new feature discovered.

Although some months ago, a person told me that I would be glad to see that Hyper-V could be part of the next Windows version, it looks like that it’s now “official” that it’s really true!

On the most recent Windows 8 leak, which is a x64 version, It seems we can active the Hyper-V feature through the Turn Windows Features on or off menu.A new extension for the virtual hard disk, VHD (*.vhdx) it’s also available.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

OOBE it’s the initial screens during the Windows setup where you are asked about username,password,computer name,etc. Now Microsoft seems to have abandoned the Aero style interface on the OOBE to show a media-center-like interface.

The rumor says this interface it’s still “locked” in a hidden file on Windows directory. So, maybe some Google search about it, could give us some clues.

If WinRumors it’s right, Kinect should be available to PCs since today.

Although we’ve already seen some implementation of Kinect on PCs, Microsoft should launch today the offical Kinect SDK.The launch of this SDK will take part on Microsoft Channel 9 website, the official channel for Microsoft’s technical events.

From the same source, this SDK should include one or two bodies recognition, voice commands and the tridimensional vision of the space.

In the last few year, Microsoft slowly changed it’s secrecy policy about new products.Learning with it’s rivals, Microsoft understood that was really better to share information with it’s customers to create a certain hype about the future products.With this new policy, Microsoft shares what it wants, avoiding the compromising leaks of information and makes it’s customers to get more excited to try the products.

The latest news about Windows 8 were “delivered” by Microsoft Corporate Vice President Dan’l Lewin.On an interview to TechRadar, Dan’l gave some good clues about Windows 8 launching date.After declaring that “we will be in market - if you look at the crystal ball and just say what happened in the past is a reasonable indicator of what our forward looking timelines will be", Dan’l, a few minutes later said that the beta version of Windows 8 should be available after the BUILD event, that should occurs on September or October 2011.

Following the previous operating system version (Windows 7), Microsoft users the next 12 months, after launching the beta version, to correct bugs and issues found during this period using also the feedback from all users expected to install the beta version.

So, Fall 2012 should be the date to look for the next Microsoft operating system.

Showing that it’s not just sleeping over the good results, Google enables new features on the project that made them famous. The search engine!

I believe that in business and so much other aspects in life, when we achieve any objective we shouldn’t stay where we are and just live of our good results. Instead, we should look how to improve even more the good work.

Google obviously thinks the same way and because of that, they are constantly improving the good things they have and also launching new ones.

This week Google presented two new improvements to it’s world leader search engine. Although this features were available on Android powered smartphones, now you can search using 2 new ways.Using your voice and using images.

The next 2 videos are demos of the features (Google Voice Search and Google Search by Image):

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

So, I’ve started to update my Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 images at work when I noticed something was wrong.

After the machine sysprep and MDT upload it to the server, I’ve published the image on my WDS for testing and there’s something wrong when deploying the newly create image to the final machine.The image it’s deployed, the OOBE runs and…error message “Windows could not finish configuring the system. To attempt resume configuration, restart the computer.”

Google, google, google and…nothing until an Social TechNet article about it!So it seems that some application I’ve installed on the new image, adds a registry key superior to 8KB and…that caused the issue.

*A note here about the download: I needed x86 and x64 versions of this hotfix and for some reason Internet Explorer 9 just showed me the x64 version (maybe because of my system) so I’ve managed to download it with Google Chrome

Monday, June 6, 2011

After a short demo of the next Microsoft’s operating system, a new demo was showed at Taiwan on the Computex fair.This 32 minutes demo, shows off again the new interface but with more in-depth explanations and also talking about additional features of the new OS.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Neowin found this new file system type on an early build of Windows 8.

Like you can see on the screenshot above taken by a member of the Neowin website, it appears Microsoft it’s again trying to implement a new file system to substitute the good old NTFS.At this time, that’s no information available about this. Just that command prompt not yet supports this feature.

Until Microsoft decides to talk about Protogon, we can just speculate about it, so…my guesses:.: A new partition specially created for Microsoft BitLocker related stuff.: A new partition just to be used as a “database” for all cached content (like photos, videos, etc)

Because I’m upgrading my Hyper-V hosts to Service Pack 1, and my virtual machines, will be upgrade later, I’ve the need to upgrade the Hyper-V Integration Components (ICs) to the latest version.

To know the current version of your ICs on the virtual machines, navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers and locate the file vmbus.sys.Next, right-click on file, then properties and click the tab details. There you’ll see the current version.

Bellow, it’s the list of the needed ICs versions, based on the host Operating System: